Harvard In The News

The “Ideas” section in this week’s Boston Sunday Globe had an article exploring how the advances of modern medicine have made “death” a subjective term…

She has Harvard ties even beyond her degrees: she once served as chief of staff to former University President Lawrence H. Summers, during…

The story includes Kurt Vonnegut’s musings about the meaning of the semicolon, and quotes an expert from Harvard…

Harvard may be at the forefront of innovation in nanotechnology and stem cells, but the University can lay claim to a more basic invention as well…

The New York Times profiles Nicole M. Parent ’93, the first female president of the Harvard Club of New York City, which did not even admit women until 1973…

In the Times story, Unger compares his Harvard experience to “paradise,” but says, “There is a problem with life in the garden. It is not dangerous enough…

Since the Boston Globe’s White Coat Notes health blog reported the news, Folkman’s colleagues, patients, and friends—more than 100 people in all—have posted comments, sharing their remembrances in a moving tribute to the physician-researcher…

How far will high-school seniors go to get college admissions officers’ attention…

Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, offers his predictions for what 2008 holds for the field of stem-cell research…

Former University president Lawrence H. Summers said the Bush administration is not doing enough to jolt the economy out of its present sluggish state…